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Post by rockymtnpea on Nov 28, 2020 6:23:23 GMT
Our sick time has no cap (currently I have 1100 hours) however when I retire I (and everyone else that is vested) can only be paid for 742 hours.
Each year we are given 88 hours of ‘personal time’ as well as a separate bank of ‘vacation’ hours of 160 hours. We can carry 40 of those hours into the new year AND we can sell 40 hours of vacation each year (starting after you have been with the company 10 years).
We can also buy up to 40 hours of vacation each year that if you don’t use you simply get your money back
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Post by paget on Nov 28, 2020 7:48:17 GMT
My vacation rolls over until 300 hours I believe. My sick time never expires. We can also donate sick (and vacation) to others in our agency and keep sick leave to cash out at retirement and a lower rate.
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Post by sueg on Nov 28, 2020 9:10:41 GMT
I am paid hourly, so no sick time and no vacation time - if I don't work, I don't get paid.
DH gets 6 weeks vacation per year, and it is supposed to be used by June the following year, unless a manager signs off to roll it over. DH always rolls some over. I think at this point, he hasn't yet used any 2020 leave, so there is no way he'll use it all up by June. He has basically unlimited sick and carers leave - it is approved on a case by case basis, and is covered by our health and social care insurance. As he can also work from home easily (and has done even pre-covid), he doesn't use a lot of sick leave either - there are days when he doesn't feel well enough to go in, but is OK working here.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Nov 28, 2020 10:24:46 GMT
Sick leave accrues with no limits. I currently have 150+ days banked. Once upon a time, employees could use accrued sick leave to pay for retiree healthcare. That policy ended before I started, but I have grandfathered coworkers who have enough to pay for two or three years of healthcare.
My annual leave accrues monthly but caps at 180 hours (24 days). I get 15 hours each month and generally have about 170 hours accrued at any time. I also get 12 paid holidays, and there is no way I would ever burn through all my annual leave just taking time off “because.”
Since annual leave is “use it or lose it,” I generally use it for doctor appointments/sick days instead of my sick leave. I can use sick leave if I need time off to care for a family member, so I will have plenty banked in case I need to help with my mom or disabled brother. I also need knee surgery, so I’ll have plenty to use for rehab.
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Post by KelleeM on Nov 28, 2020 10:41:23 GMT
Our PTO rolls over and used to be capped but there are so many people who stopped accruing that they ended the cap. Sick time, 5 days a year is use it or lose it. This year, for the first time ever, they are offering to pay out PTO in increments of 20 hours. There are people opting to get paid for 200 hours or more because they have so much accrued. It’s never a problem for me, I use my time.
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Post by paigepea on Nov 28, 2020 11:22:34 GMT
Teachers in our province used to be able to bank the days and retire a year early. This isn’t allowed anymore. When I was teaching I needed to use the days in the calendar year. I don’t know anyone who use them just because. We didn’t get true vacation days because our vacations were worked into the calendar already. I’m talking sick days, personal days, etc.
My dh works in an office and all of the partners self regulate their days. Technically they get about 4 weeks off a year and technically the days don’t roll over. Some years he doesn’t take all of the days, other years he might take a few extra. I have no idea about sick days. It has never come up. In our 19 year marriage I’ve known him to take 1 sick day. He does take the odd personal day. I’m going to say these days don’t roll over.
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Post by fkawitchypea on Nov 28, 2020 11:33:00 GMT
My vacation and sick roll over. I get 5 days of personal time and usually 2 or 3 floating holidays a year and those don't. Vacation time is capped at I think 300 hours, but there is no cap on sick time. We can use our sick time to pay our health insurance premiums when we retire so we normally bank as much as we can.
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Post by mimi3566 on Nov 28, 2020 11:45:09 GMT
I have PTO only....no separate sick days but we do get 9 paid holidays. We are allowed to roll up to 5 PTO days a year. The company wants us to take our time off. I've been with them long enough that I earn 30 days of PTO a year and typically roll 5 over so I start the year with 35 days. You have to take the 5 rolled first before you can start on the new days and they encourage you to take the rolled aka carryover days by the end of the first quarter which is March 31st.
Due to covid this year, I've been taking alot of long 3 and 4 day weekends just to use my time.....most of us were not taking them earlier in the year waiting for the upper management to decide if they would allow an exception to the number of carryover days since no one could go anywhere and we all work from home. They decided they would not change the policy and encouraged us to take our PTO even if only to chill at home and not login.
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Post by scrappyem on Nov 28, 2020 12:47:11 GMT
I get PTO only, no sick. You start with 17 days and then add 1 day for every year of service after the first year. We can't roll anything over. This year they are allowing us to rollover up to 5 days due COVID but made it clear this is an exception that won't happen again. It has to be used in 2021 and you will not get paid out for those days if you leave the company. I hate not having dedicated sick time. I usually end up saving too many days worried I'll get sick at some point, and then have more left at the end of the year than I should. I love my job but this is the worst vacation/sick leave I've had in my entire career.
Bf has the unlimited too at his new job and also feels it's under utilized. He'd rather have the dedicated time off.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 28, 2020 12:53:49 GMT
Use it or loose it.
Well I can accrue some sick time but it’s too difficult to use sick time if not really sick so that doesn’t really figure in unless you are sick, with dr note for proof. But eventually that gets lost too because they don’t pay it out. Use it or eventually lose it.
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Post by Merge on Nov 28, 2020 14:05:25 GMT
We get 5 days of district PTO time and five days paid for by the state. The state ones accrue and can be paid back to you at retirement, but the district ones are use it or lose it, so we always use those first.
As others have pointed out, it’s often more work to prepare for a sub than to just work with mild sickness. In the past, I’ve tended to use my PTO days either for appointments - I try to stack 2-3 in one day to be more efficient - or just plain old mental health days. I only take mental health days when we’re in a place where I can leave something very simple for a sub, like a video and worksheet. If we’re doing program prep or coming up on EOY testing, it’s better if I just go in so the kids don’t lose a full week of instruction/rehearsal.
There is no such thing as a music sub in my district who could actually teach the curriculum.
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Post by smalltowngirlie on Nov 28, 2020 14:12:37 GMT
I accrue PTO based on the number of hours I work. We can use the hours pretty much however we want with supervisor approval. It caps at 540 hours and then you stop accruing. We can donate to an employee emergency PTO bank and get up to 80 hours paid out once a year without having to use it. We also get 12 holidays a year and two of them can be used as floating holidays. I need to take 5 consecutive days off a year. Luckily this year I did that in January otherwise I may not have and it would have sucked to take time off with nothing to do.
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Post by Really Red on Nov 28, 2020 14:19:05 GMT
Sick and vacation come from one pot. Until 2 years ago, it was use it or lose it, but last year, they started allowing a 5-day rollover. This year, they said 2 weeks for this one year only. We have the first 3 months to use it or lose it.
I am the only person who does my job so it is very hard to take a lot of vacation. I work for a company where many people have been there 20 years or more. They all have 7 weeks of vacation annually. They take it. I had a lot of fun vacations planned in 2020, but I got to take two (Jan and Feb) before Covid hit. I am hoping to take more next year. We'll see.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Nov 28, 2020 14:26:38 GMT
We can only roll 5 days. With COVID we can roll an additional 5 but you have to take them over 3 years (2-2-1)
When my Dad retired from Boston Fire, he had 10 months of vacation they had to pay him for. I’ve never known someone to love his job more than he did.
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Post by melanieg on Nov 28, 2020 15:39:49 GMT
We get 10 sick/personal days a year. Those are use or lose. Vacation time depends how long you have been w the company. Im up to 5 weeks. They will allow us to roll over 1/2 of our time.
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 28, 2020 15:48:46 GMT
Rolls over. Depending on your hire date is how much you can bank. Old timers can bank more than recent hires. I think we can roll up to around 300-350ish (new hire) that is vacation time.
Sick time is sorta the same but you earn less per month.
Vacation is paid out if you quit or retire. Sick time is crappy... you get paid one day for every 4 (or 5) you have in your bank. My friend is getting ready to retire and she has over 300 sick hours... gonna to lose most of it.
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Post by Nanner on Nov 28, 2020 16:02:37 GMT
We can only bank 10 vacation days. We cannot bank flex days. DH has to take his by year end or he loses them.
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Post by peaname on Nov 28, 2020 16:08:09 GMT
I just left a job with 200 hours of sick time and four weeks vacation...gone. It was worth it though!
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Post by sam9 on Nov 28, 2020 16:11:42 GMT
Both DH and I get six weeks of paid vacation per year. We have a three-month grace period and then we lose it if not used. Neither of us have contracts that include a set number of sick days, but absences of more than three days at a time have to be justified. It’s very discretionary because we both have been working at the same companies for years now.
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Post by Basket1lady on Nov 28, 2020 16:20:34 GMT
DH gets 2.5 days a month vacation time. He can accrue up to 60 days before it enters the “use it or lose it” timeframe. Then it continues to accumulate until October 1, when it goes back down to 60 days max. Anytime he leaves the country for leisure, (we live in Belgium) he has to use vacation time. When we lived in the States, it was more than 3-4 hours away from his duty station. Now with Covid restrictions, it’s almost impossible to take vacation time as Belgium is the size of West Virginia. So he is allowed to accrue up to 120 vacation days. We are VERY excited about that, as we can sell them back at retirement. That will be a nice chunk of change when the time comes.
Sick days are generally “free” if he is confined to quarters. Time off for appointments is generally given unless it’s a lot. Then you would work it out with a supervisor.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Nov 28, 2020 16:37:42 GMT
In my company it depends on your status. Non-exempt it accrues based on hours worked and never expires. The accrue rate increases with years of service. It does cap at 300 or 320 hours and we haven’t had sell back for years. Non-management exempt gets a bank on their anniversary date. The amount is based in years of service. It’s use it or lose it by next anniversary date. Managers get a set amount on January 1st based on years of service. It’s use or lose for the calendar year.
Before DH retired they had gone to unlimited, but supervisors were expected to track and report how much each person took. According to his friends still working they’ve figured out 200 hours is the unofficial limit before questions are asked. However, his company is a government contractor on an AF base so they get a shitload of holidays and long weekends (flying base).
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Post by cannmom on Nov 28, 2020 16:43:08 GMT
I work in healthcare and have only PTO. We can accrue up to 400 hours, then we stop accruing until we use some. We can cash it in twice a year, but I never do. I would rather have the time off and be paid instead of just getting the money.
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Post by gizzy on Nov 28, 2020 17:14:41 GMT
Unused sick days used to be paid out at the end of the year. Vacation time didn't roll over but if you were let go & still had unused vacation time, they would pay it out. Now they've lumped it all into PTO and if you don't use it before the end of the year or are terminated, you lose it.
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Post by happyOCgirl on Nov 28, 2020 17:17:45 GMT
In my school district, you can bank your days. We are given 10 days a school year. When I switched school districts, I had the option of being paid for my days or transferring them to my new district. I choose to transfer them. I have 153 banked days. At 180, this is considered a year of teaching. I can retire a year early!
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Post by kelly8875 on Nov 28, 2020 20:44:57 GMT
Ours is use it or lose it. Once in a while there is something special that we make an arrangement for, but that is rare.
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 28, 2020 22:54:54 GMT
I work in healthcare and have only PTO. We can accrue up to 400 hours, then we stop accruing until we use some. We can cash it in twice a year, but I never do. I would rather have the time off and be paid instead of just getting the money. I wish dh's hospital still bought back time. We'd cash it in on those dates
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Post by simplyparticular on Nov 29, 2020 0:39:06 GMT
We had a 40 hour roll over that we had to use between July 1 and Labor Day. But if there was a special circumstance (which frequently happens due to chronic understaffing) that prevented you taking time off, they'd let you roll more over as an exception.
For this year, it's still 40 hours, but the Labor Day limit has been extended to the whole next fiscal year. But no more special cases. Max 40 hours. Apparently some changes in accounting rules made it a a negative to carry too much over into a new fiscal year.
Wish I would have know they were changing the rules sooner - I lost 36 hours and that was with taking every Friday off in the spring.
There is no limit on sick time for long time employees, but recent hires have to earn sick hours and accrue it. We all get 3 personal days, which everyone uses first. Now that we have electronic payroll, we don't really distinguish between what type PTO you use, as long as you have time in your bank.
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Post by auntviv on Nov 29, 2020 0:50:57 GMT
I work for my state and get most major holidays off with pay, I can bank all the sick time I want, we get 4 personal days per year and right now I get 10 hours vacation time per month, it increases a bit every July. I can only carry a total of 240 vacations time on the books. If I have any more than that on 1 July I get a check for the overage. Since my summer vacation plans were cancelled I have 270 hours now. I plan on taking 2 weeks over Christmas and will have to take a few more days in the spring. I'd rather have PTO then get more per paycheck.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 29, 2020 3:36:00 GMT
I cashed mine out when I retired. It all rolled over.
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Post by anniefb on Nov 29, 2020 5:36:57 GMT
I get 4 weeks of vacation a year. We are encouraged to take it to have a break but it does keep accruing. I normally save mine up for overseas trips, although that's that happening this year and probably not next year either! We get 5 days sick leave a year, which also keeps accruing. I think I've got about 20 days now.
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